Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Mamdani is going to implement Sussudio law. Just say the word!

Dystopias! #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

Not every idea is worth airing. Not every point of view is worth hearing. Not everything that "a lot of people believe" should be credentialed by homepage space. Would the NYT editorial board run "Did Homosexuals Ruin Culture?" or "Did Black People Get Too Big for Their Britches?" I guess we'll see.

For a second I got my wires crossed and thought this was Vin’s reaction to Dick Cheney dying

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

Favorite first-time viewings of films in October (a couple days late): One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2025) Flow (Gints Zilbalodis, 2024) Lifeforce (Tobe Hooper, 1985) From Beyond (Stuart Gordon, 1986)

“Now let me get this straight. … We hired you to babysit the kids, and instead you cooked and ate them both?”

“You’ve always been Bill DeBlasio.”

This must be what it’s like to meet Odin when you enter Valhalla. www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

I think any story about Trump's autocracy should be mostly about the people and institutions who failed to stop it. This guy isn't a political genius, everything else just happens to be rotten. 'Toddler Consolidates Power In Household' is a story about incompetent parents, not shrewd maneuvering

Uncle Sam put your name at the top of his list. And the Statue of Liberty started shaking her fist…

Watching some GOP outrage at Virginia Democrats starting a ruthless off-year gerrymander

There is only one correct answer, and it’s sitting snugly in the bottom right

An absolute must for any horror fan who hasn’t seen this

Define “Perfect Ending”?

The horror movies are good. #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

MOOC? m.youtube.com/watch?v=Tsww...

I was married but I’m not married any more. Women don’t like the vehicle.

quite touched by this kevin tighe interview in @thereveal.bsky.social. the conversation gives him space to reflect on his extensive career and the ways PTA made allowances for his disability on set of “one battle after another” and didn’t shy from casting him once the disability was known.

Drew Struzan Forever

Diane Keaton was singular.

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

The Royal Tenenbaums, Bottle Rocket, The Grand Budapest Hotel

this is every Guy Ritchie film

I mean, if you go by their U.S. discography count…

I am very firmly in spooky season #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

“Don’t worry. We still call the shots around here.”

Physical Media Collector Pumped For Downfall Of Humanity https://theonion.com/physical-media-collector-pumped-for-downfall-of-humanity/

Favorite first-time viewings for September: Weapons (Zach Cregger, 2025) Weekend (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967) High and Low (Akira Kurosawa, 1963) Re-Animator (Stuart Gordon, 1986)

(Battle Hymn of the Republic continues playing)

This is one thing giant movie studios can still do--the crazy big swing that costs a lot of money and is not tied to an algorithm or concern about "viewer retention rate at minute three"--that no other entity can. It is one reason the film ecosystem still needs them.

#filmsky right now

her name couldn’t really be WILL OBEY

Mark Ruffalo in Task

As opposed to when someone says something that a ton of people find offensive, rude, and dumb then builds a whole media empire out of the practice.

I’ve been avoiding posting about Charlie Kirk for obvious reasons, but Ta-Nehisi Coates puts it better than I can: we can mourn the dead without averting our eyes to who they were and what they stood for. If that stance is worthy of reprisal, then I don’t even know www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

my friend Darren said all AI sounds like Crow’s Rutherford B. Hayes report; he’s right

That sublime feeling when you finally track down the intersection used for a film you’re researching

one unfortunate outcome of this recent AI scam bubble is that it has absolutely killed my interest in AI's in fiction. the Alien tv show doing the whole "is AI a human" routine we've been doing for the last hundred years but now I'm like no, it's a shitty chatbot that destroys fresh water

Favorite first-time viewings for August: Rocco and His Brothers (Lucino Visconti, 1960) Europa Europa (Agnieszka Holland, 1990) Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975) The American Friend (Wim Wenders, 1977)

Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival

Vampire: Sinners Werewolf: The Wolf Man (1941) Ghost: The Shining Slasher: Halloween (1978) Folk: The Witch Big Monster: King Kong (1933) Zombie: Shaun of the Dead Comedy: Dead Alive Alien: The Thing (1982) Psych: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me Anthology: Kwaidan

Looper was the subject of my master’s thesis, and the fact that it was filmed in New Orleans inspired my dissertation. So yeah, Looper!

from chandra manning's wonderful book "what this cruel war was over"

A key difference here is that while either can be incorrect, the structure of Wikipedia *creates context* and the structure of LLMs *destroys context* Wikipedia has linked sources and an edit history showing where information came from and who added it when An LLM just generates text